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Ana S. Barreira
(she/her)
Education
PhD in Biological Sciences
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011 - 2006
- Thesis title: Evolution of plumage colouration patterns in tanagers (Aves. Thraupidae)
- Thesis advisor: PhD. Pablo L. Tubaro (CONICET, Argentina)
BS in Biological Sciences
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
2005 - 1998
- Thesis title: Spectral differences in plumage colouration between seasons and subspecies of male Ultramarine Grosbeaks (Cyanocompsa brissonii)
- Thesis advisor: PhD. Pablo L. Tubaro (CONICET, Argentina)
- Thesis co-advisor: PhD Stephen C. Lougheed (Queens University, Canada)
Research Experience
Visiting Researcher
Irwin Lab
Zoology Department, University of British Columbia
2020 - current
- The purpose of this visit is to improve my knowledge of genomic techniques applied to the study of speciation with gene flow in birds.
Assistant Researcher
CONICET (National Research Council of Argentina)
División Ornitología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”
2014 - current
- Research Interests: Evolution and diversification of Neotropical birds. Diversity and mechanisms of elaboration of colour in biological tissues.
- Other interests: Museum collections, taxidermy, and use of museum specimens and data bases for research.
Posdoctoral Fellow
CONICET (National Research Council of Argentina)
División Ornitología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”
2014 - 2011
- I investigated patterns of genetic diversity in Neotropical birds through DNA Barcodes.
Doctoral Fellow
CONICET (National Research Council of Argentina)
División Ornitología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”
2011 - 2006
- I investigated evolution of plumage colouration in Tanagers (Aves: Thraupidae).
- I investigated patterns of genetic diversity in Neotropical birds through DNA Barcodes.
- I contributed to increasing Argentina’s National Ornithology collection and building the frozen tissue collection.
Teaching Experience
Bioinformatics for DNA Barcoding
Leading Labs trainning workshop: extending and enhancing DNA barcoding research in Argentina and neighbouring countries
CONICET and Biodiversity Institute of Ontario/Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding
2019 - 2013
- I was Instructor of bioinformatics in the one-week (40 hours) workshop held annually at the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales. This workshop was attended by researchers, graduate students, and technicians from Argentina and other Latin American countries involved in DNA Barcoding research projects.
Introduction to Ecology
Universidad de San Andres
Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
2012 - 2005
- TA and lectured
- The course covered basic concepts of biology in genetics, evolution, and ecology.
- Undergraduate level class.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Mechanisms involved in the production of differently colored feathers in the structurally colored Swallow Tanager (Tersina viridis, Aves: Thraupidae)
Journal of Experimental Zoology: Part B Molecular and Devolopmental Evolution
N/A
2020 - Under review
- Bazzano Lisandro T., Mendicino Lucas R., Inchaussandague Marina E., Skigin Diana C., García Natalia C., Tubaro Pablo L. and Barreira Ana S.
- https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.28.225862
Achromatic, but not chromatic, sexual differences in ovenbird plumages (Aves: Furariidae)
Journal of Ornithology
N/A
2020 - Under review
- Barreira Ana S., Eaton Muir E., Vilacoba Elisabet and Kopuchian Cecilia
Analysis of the optical properties of the silvery spots on the wings of the Gulf Fritillary, Dione vanillae
Scientific Reports
N/A
2020 - Under review
- Dolinko Andres, Borgmann Luisa, Lutz Christian, Curticean Ernest R., Wacker Irene, Vidal Maria S., Szischik Candela, Inchaussandague Marina, Skigin Diana, Hölscher Hendrik, Tubaro Pablo and Barreira Ana
Evolution between forest macrorefugia is linked to discordance between genetic and morphological variation in Neotropical passerines.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 149 (2020) 106849.
N/A
2020
- Trujillo-Arias Natalia, Rodríguez-Cajarville María J., Sari Eloisa, Miyaki Cristina Y., Santos Fabricio R., Witt Christopher C., Barreira Ana S., Gómez Isabel, Kazuya Naoki, Tubaro Pablo L. and Cabanne Gustavo S.
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106849
Theoretical approaches to study the optical response of the red-legged honycreeper’s plumage (Cyanerpes cyaneus).
Applied Optics 59(13)
N/A
2020
- Urquía Gonzalo M., Inchaussandague Marina E., Skigin Diana C., Lester Marcelo, Barreira Ana and Tubaro Pablo L.
- https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.380307
UV sensitive vision in cardinals and tanagers is ubiquitous
EMU in press
N/A
2020
- Casalia Belen, Vilacoba Elisabet, Lavinia Pablo D., Tubaro Pablo L. and Barreira Ana S.
Contrasting evolutionary histories in Neotropical birds: divergence across and environmental barrier in South America.
Molecular Ecology 28 (7), 1730-1747
N/A
2019
- Lavinia Pablo D., Barreira Ana S., Campagna Leonardo, Tubaro Pablo L. and Lijtmaer Dario A.
- https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15018
How the observed color of the Swallow Tanager (Tersina viridis) changes with viewing geometry
Optik 182, 639-646
N/A
2019
- Skigin Diana C., Inchaussandague Marina E., D’Ambrosio Christian, Barreira Ana S. and Tubaro Pablo L.
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijleo.2019.01.037
Structural color in the Swallow Tanager (Tersina viridis): Using the Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method to simulate disorder in natural photonic crystals
Physical Review E 98 (3), 032403
N/A
2018
- D’Ambrosio Christian. Skigin Diana, Inchauyssandague Marina, Barreira Ana S. and Tubaro Pablo L.
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.98.032403
Structural colour in Tersina viridis
Opt. Pura Apl 50, 279-288
N/A
2017
- D’Ambrosio Cristian, Inchaussandague Marina, Skigin Diana, Barreira, Ana S. and Tubaro, Pablo L.
- https://www.sedoptica.es/Menu_Volumenes/Pdfs/OPA_50_3_49058.pdf
The multiple applications of DNA barcodes in avian evolutionary studies
Genome 59 (11), 899-911
N/A
2016
- Barreira Ana S., Lijtmaer Darío A. and Tubaro Pablo L.
- https://doi.org/10.1139/gen-2016-0086
Congruence of phenotypic and genetic variation at the subspecific level in a Neotropical passerine.
IBIS 158(4): 844-856
N/A
2016
- García Natalia C., Barreira Ana S., Lavinia Pablo D. and Tubaro Pablo L.
- https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12386
Viewing geometry affects sexual dichromatism and conspicuousness of the non-iridescent plumage of Swallow Tanagers (Tersina viridis)
The Auk - Ornithological Advances 133(3): 530-543
N/A
2016
- Barreira Ana S., García Natalia C., Lougheed Stephen C. and Tubaro Pablo L.
- https://doi.org/10.1642/AUK-15-170.1
Continental-scale analysis reveals deep diversification within the polytypic Red-crowned Ant Tanager (Habia rubica, Cardinalidae)
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 89, 182-193
N/A
2015
- Lavinia Pablo D., Escalante Patricia, García Natalia C., Barreira Ana S., Trujillo-Arias Natalia, Tubaro Pablo L., Miyaki Cristina C., Santos, Fabricio R. and LIjtmaer Dario A.
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2015.04.018
Intraspecific and interspecific vocal variation in three Neotropical cardinalids (Passeriformes: Fringillidae) and its relationship with body mass
EMU 114: 129-136
N/A
2014
- García Natalia C., Barreira Ana S., Cecilia Kopuchian and Pablo L. Tubaro
- https://www.publish.csiro.au/mu/MU13010
Fluorescent and ultraviolet sexual dichromatism in the blue-winged parrotlet.
Journal of Zoology 288: 135-142
N/A
2012
- Barreira Ana S., Lagorio M. Gabriela, Lijtmaer Darío A., Lougheed Stephen C. and Tubaro Pablo L.
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2012.00931.x
Standardized Libraries of DNA Barcodes Provide Insight into Continental Patterns of Avian Diversification
PLoS ONE 6(7): e20744
N/A
2011
- Lijtmaer Darío A., Kerr Kevin C. R., Barreira Ana S., Hebert Paul D. N. and Tubaro Pablo L.
- doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020744
DNA barcodes provide new evidence of a recent radiation in the genus Sporophila (Aves: Passeriformes)
Molecular Ecology Resources 10: 449-458
N/A
2010
- Campagna Leonardo, Lijtmaer Darío A., Kerr Kevin C. R., Barreira Ana S., Hebert Paul D. N., Lougheed Stephen C. and Tubaro Pablo L.
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02799.x
Probing Evolutionary Patterns in Neotropical Birds Through DNA Barcodes
PLoS ONE 4(2): e4379.
N/A
2009
- Kerr Kevin C. R., Lijtmaer Darío A., Barreira Ana S., Tubaro Pablo L. and Hebert Paul D. N.
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004379
Blue males and green females: sexual dichromatism in the Blue Dacnis (Dacnis cayana) and the Swallow Tanager (Tersina viridis)
Ornitología Neotropical, 19(3): 441-450
N/A
2008
- Barreira Ana S., Garcia Gabriela V., Lijtmaer Darío A., Lougheed Stephen C. and Tubaro Pablo L.
- https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/ON%20%2819%29%20441-450.pdf
Subspecific and seasonal variation in the structurally based coloration of the Ultramarine Grosbeak
The Condor 109:187-192
N/A
2007
- Barreira, Ana S., Lijtmaer Dario A., Lougheed Stephen C. and Tubaro Pablo L.
- https://doi.org/10.1093/condor/109.1.187
I have Peer-Reviewed for the following journals:
1) Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology;
2) Animal Behaviour;
3) American Naturalist;
4) Biological Journal of the Linnean Society;
5) Wilson Journal of Ornithology;
6) The Auk - Ornithological Advances;
7) Journal of Natural History;
8) Behavioural Ecology;
9) Brazilian Journal of Ornithology;
10) EMU - Austral Ornithology;
11) Italian Journal of Zoology.
Book Chapters
Visual and acoustic communication in Neotropical birds: Diversity and evolution of signals
Behavioral Ecology of Neotropical Birds, Chapter 8: 155-183. Springer ISBN: 978-3-030-14280-3
N/A
2019
- Barreira Ana S and Garcia Natalia C.
- Eds: Juan C. Reboreda, Vanina Fiorini and Diego Tuero.
Mentorship
Belen Casalia - Undergradute student
Undergradute dissertation advisor
N/A
2020 - 2018
- Thesis title: “Molecular characterization of UV visual sensitivity in Cardinals and Tanagers (Aves: Cardinalidae and Thraupidae)”. Accepted for publication in EMU - Austral Ornithology (see publications list)
- Defense date: March 13, 2020
- Calification: 10/10
Andes Breccia - Undergraduate student
Educative Internship supervisor
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2017 - 2016
- Andres internship was in the context of the project “Expansion of the ultra-frozen Tissue Collection for genomic studies”
- Sistema Nacional de Datos Genomicos, Ministerio Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion.
- The objective of this internship was to adapt the museum’s DNA Barcode dataset to be compatible with the standards of Argentina’s National Genomic Data Repository.
Theses evaluations: I am a member of the doctoral thesis committee of Lic. Paula Garrido, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. Director: Paulo Llambias. I have also acted as jury of undergrad theses for the Departmento de Ecologia, Genetica y Evolucion, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Scientific presentations from the last 2 years
(Total = 46) Searching for the genomic basis of differentiation in plumage patterning within the Rufous-collared Sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis).
VII North American Ornithologial Conference
Virtual
2020
- Lavinia Pablo D., Campagna Leonardo, Barreira Ana S., Lougheed Stephen C., Tubaro Pablo L. and Lijtmaer Dario A.
Comparison of morphological and reflectance properties of differenty coloured feathers from male Swallow Tanagers (Tersina viridis, Aves: Thraupidae).
Biological and Bio-inspired optics Faraday Discussion - Living Light edition
Virtual
2020
- Bazzano Tomas, Mendicino Lucas, Inchaussandague Marina, Skigin Diana, Garcia Natalia C., Tubaro Pablo L. and Barreira Ana S.
Analysis of the optical properties of the silvery spots on the wings of the Gulf Fritillary, Dione vanillae.
Biological and Bio-inspired optics Faraday Discussion - Living Light edition
Virtual
2020
- Borgmann Luisa, Dolinko Andres, Lutz Christian, Curticean Ernest R., Wacker Irene, Vidal Maria S., Szischik Candela, Inchaussandague Marina, Skigin Diana, Hölscher Hendrik, Tubaro Pablo and Barreira Ana S.
Caracterización de la sensibilidad visual UV en cardinalinos (Aves: Cardinalidae) y Tráupidos (Aves: Thraupidae) a partir de la secuenciación del gen de la opsina sensible a longitudes de onda corta (SWS1)
XVIII Reunión Argentina de Ornitología.
Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2019
- Casalía Belén, Vilacoba Elisabet, Lavinia Pablo D. and Barreira Ana S.
Historias evolutivas contratantes en aves neotropicales: diferenciación a través de una barrera ambiental en Sudamérica
III Reunión Argentina de Biología Evolutiva
CABA, Argentina
2019
- Lavinia Pablo D., Barreira Ana S., Campagna Leonardo, Tubaro Pablo L. and Lijtmaer, Dario A.
Caracterización de la sensibilidad visual UV en cardinalinos (Aves: Cardinalidae) y Tráupidos (Aves: Thraupidae) a partir de la secuenciación del gen de la opsina sensible a longitudes de onda corta (SWS1)
III Reunión Argentina de Biología Evolutiva
CABA, Argentina
2019
- Casalía Belén, Vilacoba Elisabet, Lavinia Pablo D. and Barreira Ana S.
Análisis del patrón espacial de manchas plateadas en la mariposa espejitos (Agraulis vanillae) y Moneta (Dione moneta)
III Reunión Argentina de Biología Evolutiva
CABA, Argentina
2019
- Bianchimano Luciana, Nuñez-Bustos Ezequiel, Tubaro Pablo L. and Barreira Ana S.
Spatial pattern analysis of silvery spots in Agraulis vanillae and Dione spp. butterflies
Bio-inspired optics and photonics – from metamaterials to applications
Dresden, Germany
2019
- Barreira Ana S., Bianchimano Luciana, Nuñez-Bustos Ezequiel and Tubaro Pablo L.
Proximate and ultimate causes of the variable structural color in the Swallow Tanager (Tersina viridis).
Bio-inspired optics and photonics – from metamaterials to applications
Dresden, Germany
2019
- Tubaro Pablo L., Barreira Ana S., Skigin Diana, Inchaussandague Marina and D’Ambrosio Christian
Unusual color effect in the plumage of the genera Cyanerpes and Dacnis.
Bio-inspired optics and photonics – from metamaterials to applications
Dresden, Germany
2019
- Urquia Gonzalo M., Skigin Diana, Inchaussandague Marina, Barreira Ana S. and Tubaro Pablo L.
Other research and field work
Participation in field expeditions
Division Ornitologia
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales
N/A
- Nov-Dec 2019: Collection of Zonotrichia capensis samples across a phenotypic gradient in the Argentinean Patagonia.
- Nov 2017: General collection of bird specimens and blood samples of the endangered Limnoctites rectirostris in Uruguay.
- 2013-2012-2011-2007-2006: General collection of bird specimens in Misiones province, Argentina. (2-3 three weeks expeditions).
- 2009/2008: General collection of bird specimens in joint expeditions with the Coleccion Boliviana de Fauna (Isabel Gomez and Dr. Kazuya Naoki) in the North Yungas area of La Paz province (2008) and the Amazonian region at the border between Laz Paz and Beni provinces (2009) of Bolivia (1-month expedition each)
- Nov-2006: general collection of bird specimens in a joint expedition between MACN and the Kansas University Natural History Museum (Mark Robbins)
- Oct-Nov 2005: General collection of bird specimens joint between Kansas University Natural History Museum (Mark Robbins) and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (Kimberly Bostwick) to Jujuy province, in Argentina.
Research visit
Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding (CCDB)
Guelph University, Ontario, Canada
2007
- I visited the CCDB to process samples for the project “DNA barcoding of the birds of Argentina” (see Kerr et al. 2009).
- Host Collaborators: PhD Kevin Kerr and PhD Paul Hebert.
I have acted as a peer reviewer for research grant proposals funded by the Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica of Argentina, both for national and international grant categories.
